The death toll from an air strike on a wedding party in Yemen has jumped to 131, medics said on Tuesday, in one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in Yemen's war that drew strong condemnation from the U.N. secretary-general. Rob Muir reports.
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It was an air-strike on a wedding reception..one of the deadliest attacks on civilians since Yemen's civil war began. More 130 people were reportedly killed. Residents of al-Wahija say two missiles smashed into tents hosting the wedding reception of a local man. They say he was affiliated with a Houthi group, Iranian-backed rebels currently fighting the Sunni-affiliated government in exile for control of the country. A Saudi-led Arab coalition that's been launching air-attacks on the Houthis since March, denies involvement in the wedding party attack. They say local militias may be responsible. Among the dead, were women and children...the latest casualties in a war that has claimed more than 4500 lives.